Designed and made by hand at our ceramics studio on Harstine Island (near Olympia, WA),
this fine-art porcelain pottery takes a traditional format in an unconventional direction.
This line of work is not woodfired.

Porcelain clay is thrown on the potter's wheel or hand-formed from slabs of soft clay. It is hand-decorated with
original drawings and paintings of natural images. John and Colleen are avid gardeners, and the decoration on &nbsp
our pottery and tiles is inspired by our gardens and forest on Harstine Island.

Decoration is a combination of underglaze brushwork painting, incised and inlaid line drawing (Mishima),
original artist-made serigraph transfer drawing, wax-resist brushwork and overglaze painting.
The medium is cobalt blue oxide with a clear glaze on white porcelain. The processes involve
at least three firings of each piece. We are trying to achieve a depth of layers in the image
which cannot be "read" at first glance but which reveals itself to the viewer over time.

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Incising through layers of wax and cobalt oxide brushwork. The white lines
will be filled with cobalt oxide to become dark. Firing turns the oxide blue.